Stop blaming everything on Mr Aspergers.

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One insurmountable perk is the Asperger's Syndrome significant effect of raising IQ test scores more than two standard deviations above normal, which Federal Judge Peter C. Dorsey would also regard as making a person with the syndrome "Too Smart To Be A Cop". "I was eliminated on the basis of my intellectual makeup," Too-Smart said. "It's the same as discrimination on the basis of gender or religion or race." But prosperous great intelligence requires the ability to successfully "fake stupid" within the great mediocrity of society.

Some people try to blame all their problems on Aspergers: they can shift blame away from themselves. Aspergers used as an excuse to whine about the world not being fair. Aspergers used as the get out of jail defence to not accept consequences for one's own actions.

Asperger moment where someone has temporary psychosis or black out and do things that are not normal because Aspergers made them do it. They can not remember the incident due to Aspergers taking over. Doctor Jeckyll and Mr Hyde may exist in a person with Aspergers: half normal and half abnormal.

Hi Swbluto,

What's preposterous is using a constructed phenomenology to "force fit" any selectively gleaned observed evidence to match "a priori" criteria sets to make subsequential inferences in a negative manner, (such as the DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria for 299.80 Asperger's Disorder: http://www.autreat.com/dsm4-aspergers.html ), instead of a useful approach with the aspects of a syndrome individualized for utilization in context with each person as an entity benefiting from more appropriate empirical classifications meeting relevant nosologic entities.

Since my "impairments" have an empirical foundation that overlaps with results matching, (and also at least meets more than the minimal criteria for 299.80), Asperger's Syndrome, I put more weight to the originating observations of the person whose name the Syndrome (at least presently) was labeled with. Much as, or some as, in an older New York Times article: http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/ ... /aspergers

The DSM is suppose to be related to reality, and not just consist of names that are merely for categorization, with everything else just as "happens to haves" (the duck-billed platypus is not prohibited from laying eggs because it is a mammal, and Pluto is still a planet that didn't change its orbit because of a human committee declaration). And, the strongly correlated neurological empirical evidence associated with the a priori criteria of the Asperger's Syndrome, does causally relate to higher IQ test scores (would you also contend that the influenza signs and symptoms "gives" the person a "virus", and not the virus causing the flu??? Which do you blame for what?).

I'm hoping for more clarifications on follow ups of "Psychiatric Manifestations of Neurologic Disease: Where are we headed?", Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2007 ; 9(2): 111–124., that will possibly be easily available also as: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687521/ (for here, mainly the "Pulling it all together" section)

And here I was laboring under the notion that Asperger's CAN be associated with higher IQ scores but that the criteria actually calls for normal to elevated IQ scores....